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QQL: collectors select generated outputs

QQL

Tyler Hobbs; Dandelion Mané

Introduction

QQL separates algorithm exploration from official minting: anyone may generate images, while pass holders select outputs for the series. The project describes collector curation; Pace dates the website launch to September 2022.

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Work image shown on Tyler Hobbs’s QQL project page; no individual token identifier is independently established here.View full image ↗

Work image shown on Tyler Hobbs’s QQL project page; no individual token identifier is independently established here.

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RESEARCH ACCOUNT

QQL: collectors select generated outputs

ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-03

Work and historical context

This entry for Tyler Hobbs; Dandelion Mané is dated 2022-09, under the original title QQL. A later artist essay contains a conflicting 2021 mint-pass date; this entry uses Pace’s September 2022 website date, not that field.

Section sources: About QQL · Tyler Hobbs: QQL: Analogs — Pace Gallery

Process and material

QQL separates algorithm exploration from official minting: anyone may generate images, while pass holders select outputs for the series. The project describes collector curation; Pace dates the website launch to September 2022.

Section sources: About QQL · Tyler Hobbs: QQL: Analogs — Pace Gallery

Viewing the work and its documentation

QQL separates exploring outputs from minting collectibles. Its Create page supports experimentation and comparison; the official account associates saving with a wallet and minting with a pass. This selection process changes the relation between artist, system and collector.

Section sources: About QQL · Tyler Hobbs: QQL: Analogs — Pace Gallery

Art-historical significance and comparison

Editorial interpretation: It relocates selection within long-form generation, making collecting part of the work’s formation rather than simply accepting an output at mint time.

Section sources: About QQL

Sources for this account

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It relocates selection within long-form generation, making collecting part of the work’s formation rather than simply accepting an output at mint time.

Incomplete Control: leaving room for error and imperfection ↗

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Dates & version record

Date displayed for this node: 2022-09 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2022-09

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A later artist essay contains a conflicting 2021 mint-pass date; this entry uses Pace’s September 2022 website date, not that field.

Provenance, translation & verification

Archive node #194 · Generative-art expansion: artists, works and execution

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